Regarding Willingness: Chronicles of a Fraught Life
Language: English
Published by Riverfeet Press, 2021
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2020 Montana Book Award Honor Book ?(These) stories should be required reading.? -Montana Book Award Committee Tom ?Harp? Harpole was a horse logger working from remote mountain camps and living in wall tents until an accident suggested a change of lifestyle. He took to his other avocation ? writing, and studied abroad in Ireland. He began publishing stories in periodicals such as Smithsonian Air & Space, Sports Illustrated, Crocodil, Montana Quarterly, Whitefish Review, and more. In 1986 his story ?The Last of Butch? (Faber & Faber, London) was selected as The Best Short Story in the British Isles. His work has been short-listed for the National Magazine Award twice, and translated into six languages. He has been a guest reader on NPR more than a dozen times. Harpole writes in a voice that uses his natural wit and humor to shed light on a life of stories that bring readers to the edge of danger. ?Tom Harpole is what you might call a thinking man?s Evel Knievel,? - Aaron Parrett, author of Montana: Then & NowCertain magazines that assigned Harp feature articles knew early on that he would try anything that involved physical/emotional risks. He regarded himself as a Survivor?s Euphoria aficionado. His willingness and perspective on dalliances with danger range from an N.F.L. record, to horse logging, to skydiving with Russian cosmonauts, to getting a black bear stoned, to his compassion as a volunteer EMT in rural Montana, to protesting Gorbachev in 1990, to driving ice roads above the Arctic circle, and more. This book is a collection of sixteen of his most popular stories. …
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- Title
- Regarding Willingness: Chronicles of a Fraught Life
- Author
- Tom Harpole
- Publisher
- Riverfeet Press
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1736089404
- ISBN 13
- 9781736089408
Tom “Harp” Harpole was a horse logger working from remote mountain camps and living in wall tents until an accident suggested a change of lifestyle. He took to his other avocation – writing, and studied abroad in Ireland. He began publishing stories in periodicals such as Smithsonian Air & Space, Sports Illustrated, Crocodil, Montana Quarterly, Whitefish Review, and more. In 1986 his story “The Last of Butch” (Faber & Faber, London) was selected as The Best Short Story in the British Isles. His work has been short-listed for the National Magazine Award twice, and translated into six languages. He has been a guest reader on NPR more than a dozen times. Harpole writes in a voice that uses his natural wit and humor to shed light on a life of stories that bring readers to the edge of danger.
Certain magazines that assigned Harp feature articles knew early on that he would try anything that involved physical/emotional risks. He regarded himself as a Survivor’s Euphoria aficionado. His willingness and perspective on dalliances with danger range from an N.F.L. record, to horse logging, to skydiving with Russian cosmonauts, to getting a black bear stoned, to his compassion as a volunteer EMT in rural Montana, to protesting Gorbachev in 1990, to driving ice roads above the Arctic circle, and more. This book is a collection of sixteen of his most popular stories.
You can find the original edition of this book, printed on linen cover stock, direct from the publishers website.
Editorial Reviews
"These tales will make you marvel, maybe wipe a tear, and quite likely blow some coffee out your nose. Harpole was lucky enough to survive his life and that makes us lucky, too.” - Scott McMillion, editor of Montana Quarterly magazine and author of Mark of the Grizzly
“In the self-effacing tradition of Tim Cahill’s work, his adventures, sometimes unanticipated, are always told with a rough and ready heart.” – Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West
“It's one thing to take incredible risks with one's life and live to tell the tale, but something else entirely to have the skill to share those adventures in an interesting way. In this breathtaking collection of essays, Harpole proves that he is a gifted storyteller. Just don't try any of this at home.” – Chris La Tray, author of One-Sentence Journal
“This collection of adventures will make you laugh, cry and think; which is pretty much all you can ask of a good book.” - Dave Ames, author of True Love and the Woolly Bugger
“When Tom Harpole talks of his story assignments and adventures, there’s a sense that this guy just may be channeling the energy and spirit of Jack London and Mark Twain with a dash of George Plimpton.” - Marga Lincoln, Independent Record
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About the Author
In 1970, Tom (Harp) Harpole and his cousin Jerry put together a horse logging show in western Oregon through most of the 70’s, while he studied for a Forestry Engineering MA at OSU. He got banged up falling timber in western Montana in the early 80’s and he and his wife Lisa took the Work Comp settlement and headed to Ireland with their wee ones, Flannery and Derry. Harp studied Latin, Greek, and English writing and was selected to be the first American to participate in the Irish National Writer’s Workshop. Two years later, back home, he began writing for a living at the age of 40 and did well, working for glossies such as National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian Air & Space, plus more. Magazine assignments took him to six continents over a twenty-three-year career. He also spent several hundred days, two weeks at a time, teaching writing workshops in 80+ bush schools all over Alaska.
Certain magazines that assigned Harp feature articles knew early on that he would try anything that involved physical/emotional risks. He regarded himself as a Survivor’s Euphoria aficionado. His willingness and perspective on dalliances with danger range from an N.F.L. record, to horse logging, to skydiving with Russian cosmonauts, to getting a black bear stoned, to his compassion as a volunteer EMT in rural Montana, to protesting Gorbachev in 1990, to driving ice roads above the Arctic circle, and more.
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